That sounds good...on the surface.  For me, I think I want to be aware of what's happening when Idie..

Then again, I don't take much now for pain..

Hi Bill-

I suppose you could grow your own poppies, refine the opium and make up a pain reliever, assuming that local officials never caught on. In the 1960's one of the ideas was to use a combination of LSD and opiates so that the mind would be aware at death. Later, it turned out that mescaline was a better cogener for opiates. I thought it was a good idea at the time.

As far as I can see, the underlying problem is that you presume that we all live in a morally competent and rational world. When I look around and discover that we've spent over $300 billion on killing our neighbors, while our schools are still poorer than those in most other advanced techonological nations, then I wonder whether we're ready for that kind of foresight. In the back of my mind I have an image of a dying body being wheeled into court on a gurney ...

dave